Resolve no tools available to resize disk with ‘gpt’

Ever encountered an error message no tools available to resize disk with ‘gpt’ while trying to extend a GPT partition in a Linux system?. I got this error message today while attempting to extend a Cinder Volume in OpenStack environment. The operating system I’m running is CentOS 7. The Cinder volume was extended using our previous article How To resize/extend Cinder Volume in OpenStack.

I extended the disk to 50GB but the capacity usable is still 20GB.

# lsblk /dev/vdc
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
vdc    253:32   0  50G  0 disk
└─vdc1 253:33   0  20G  0 part /data

To resolve no tools available to resize disk with ‘gpt’ we need to install gdisk package. This package is required for gpt partition management.

Install gdisk package with the commands below,

--- CentOS / RHEL / Fedora ---
$ sudo yum -y install cloud-utils-growpart gdisk

--- Ubuntu / Debian ---
$ sudo apt install cloud-guest-utils gdisk

After the installation of the gdisk tool, you should now be able to extend the size of the disk using growpart.

$ sudo growpart /dev/vdc 1
CHANGED: partition=1 start=2048 old: size=41938944 end=41940992 new: size=104855518 end=104857566

Confirm size growth:

$ sudo lsblk  /dev/vdc
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
vdc    253:32   0  50G  0 disk
└─vdc1 253:33   0  50G  0 part /data

I can then grow the filesystem to use entire available space.

$ sudo xfs_growfs /data
meta-data=/dev/vdc1              isize=512    agcount=4, agsize=1310592 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=1        finobt=0 spinodes=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=5242368, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=2560, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
data blocks changed from 5242368 to 13106939

Validate updated configurations.

$ df -hT /data
Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vdc1      xfs    50G   17G   34G  33% /data

We have successfully solved no tools available to resize disk with ‘gpt’ error message encountered when trying to extend a Linux partition with growpart.

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